Pay no Attention to the Trailer

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2003)

Preview Pre-Review
The first trailer I saw for this movie was the teaser, very short. It basically shows you a man waking up in a hospital to a world stripped of people, void of music or narration. Immediately the mind scatters. You become intrigues, speculative and enticed to see this Sci-Fi, Philosophical, Brit-Flick.
Subsequent trailers followed frequently during my favorite television program (ironically the movie makes a joke about the Simpsons) revealing further plot to this movie and unfortunately portraying it as a Zombie genre Horror flick. I knew from the teaser that the movie was good and had to mute out the previews to keep my head from thinking this movie to be another 'Evil Dead'.
I saw the movie in a local theater packed with many high school students. Many people left after 20 minutes, pairs would leave every 7 minutes there after. The trailer spoiled it for them, similar to how it spoiled me.
Review
I loved this movie! First off the camera work (what appears to be digital camcorders), though it takes getting used to, was an awesome canvas. Second the acting, well done. Similar to Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead'. It displayed true human angst for salvation after man's society has been replaced by eminent threat. The directing was superb. I have always loved 'Trainspotting', 'Life Less Ordinary' was decent and I was advised to steer clear of 'The Beach'. It was hard to associate the directing in '28DL' with any of these movies. It was definitely Danny Boyle turning over a new leaf.

Overall this movie pleasantly fused elements of Goosebump inducing story telling, Jump-out-of-your-seat Thrills, and the overly-forgotten advantages of low budget film making (the most expensive special effect was probably the red contact lenses). Together you get a thinking man's Thriller. It is not a zombie flick since technically there are no Zombies only sick, very sick, people. It reads like a novel but it grabs you like a animalistic killer. Well shot and well developed it is a completely original take on an age old idea.
Even though it has a preview for "Jason vs. Freddy" it is not a slasher movie nor your run-of-the mill Horror movie. I'd say worth seeing.